Words that come from Latin “-us”
400 words across 1 languages descend from Latin -us — including certain, Christian, certainly, Miss, master, suddenly, ancient, strange.
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English (400)
- certain
- Christian
- certainly
- Miss
- master
- suddenly
- ancient
- strange
- Roman
- sum
- sudden
- mountain
- urban
- superior
- Christianity
- captain
- Canadian
- enormous
- stranger
- Mexican
- summary
- Australian
- Republican
- Mrs
- sovereign
- supreme
- uncertain
- mistress
- sovereignty
- Korean
- romance
- Alan
- Mediterranean
- Urban
- opera
- superiority
- surgeon
- summit
- sodium
- spontaneous
- Palestinian
- strangely
- fountain
- Victorian
- median
- Mars
- Cuban
- potassium
- supremacy
- magistrate
- politician
- veteran
- republican
- Iranian
- Hungarian
- Prussian
- radiant
- Brazilian
- Einstein
- Christine
- lesbian
- suburban
- Belgian
- spontaneously
- Montana
- tech
- Messrs.
- Tibetan
- Adrian
- Ms
- Syrian
- summarize
- Madonna
- Venetian
- Armenian
- enormously
- Lutheran
- villain
- Dominican
- Romania
- Romance
- Hawaiian
- mundane
- cosmopolitan
- Gaussian
- Scandinavian
- uranium
- homicide
- masterpiece
- Nigerian
- mountainous
- dean
- sectarian
- mammalian
- miscellaneous
- librarian
- mitochondrial
- Elizabethan
- Saharan
- Alberta
- ammonium
- Babylonian
- Confucian
- Serbian
- Bayesian
- Boolean
- Smithsonian
- Aristotelian
- egalitarian
- consummate
- Cartesian
- Bulgarian
- consummation
- Georgian
- methane
- utopian
- Peruvian
- subterranean
- Caucasian
- technician
- Ethiopian
- Kantian
- urbanization
- radiating
- scribe
- mitochondria
- Romanian
- Honduras
- extraneous
- ana
- Macedonian
- prodigal
- supremely
- masterly
- Haitian
- Darwinian
- Bohemian
- Wesleyan
- mastering
- methanol
- Caspian
- strangeness
- Andean
- Colombian
- Chilean
- Croatian
- scandic
- Siberian
- Confucianism
- Fontaine
- titanium
- pesticide
- Virginian
- masterful
- Malaysian
- alumina
- Freudian
- insignia
- Manchuria
- Newtonian
- Mohammedan
- Jamaican
- Bosnian
- avian
- comedian
- Keynesian
- Cambodian
- summarily
- soprano
- travail
- Corinthian
- Columbian
- Lithuanian
- Bavarian
- Libyan
- sonorous
- radiate
- suddenness
- enormity
- antiquarian
- Hadrian
- barium
- Alban
- ensign
- patrician
- Crimean
- riparian
- Texan
- Mayan
- republicanism
- cosmopolitanism
- Hegelian
- Shakespearean
- Himalayan
- Iberian
- sacrilege
- postmaster
- operatic
- oeuvre
- Latvian
- radiator
- Venezuelan
- Jordanian
- equestrian
- Adrienne
- Californian
- headmaster
- uncertainly
- Hamiltonian
- radium
- Estonian
- Kenyan
- Polynesian
- Lana
- infanticide
- Cambrian
- Romanesque
- Americana
- Trinitarian
- Bolivian
- mister
- carnivorous
- egalitarianism
- Permian
- plutonium
- Bodleian
- unicorn
- Galilean
- Devonian
- insecticide
- Rwandan
- Malayan
- mountainside
- Septimus
- mountaineer
- Nicaraguan
- fount
- Arthurian
- Carthaginian
- Ghanaian
- missus
- viper
- pediatrician
- Marxian
- summarise
- Aeneid
- touchy
- Alexa
- Parthian
- Guatemalan
- magisterial
- Corsican
- Lucan
- bool
- subclavian
- Hessian
- electrician
- herbicide
- propane
- Pentium
- Edwardian
- Lagrangian
- Amazonian
- Slovenian
- anciently
- urbanity
- biennial
- Episcopalian
- Hanoverian
- courtesan
- Caledonian
- Australasian
- Copernican
- Brownian
- Ugandan
- urbane
- Samoan
- Mycenaean
- Liberian
- sectarianism
- ure
- Mendelian
- maestro
- Romanism
- urbanism
- prodigality
- Cretan
- bohemian
- paymaster
- Lacanian
- homicidal
- Scythian
- Jungian
- Tunisian
- Christiansen
- Valentinian
- primogeniture
- Mississippian
- mountaintop
- Tasmanian
- Judean
- Tanzanian
- Gandhian
- Zoroastrian
- Westphalian
- Manchurian
- Andalusian
- Akkadian
- Jeffersonian
- reptilian
- rhetorician
- Rhodesian
- Jacksonian
- valproate
- supremacist
- Lutheranism
- Harappan
- Appian
- Nestorian
- butyl
- Bloemfontein
- scribal
- germanium
- Circassian
- Galician
- Singaporean
- Alana
- Pennsylvanian
- mizzen
- Servian
- Thracian
- lesbianism
- octane
- Belarusian
- superiorly
- Precambrian
- thorium
- Panamanian
- hexane
- schoolmistress
- Hobbesian
- Humean
- mycelium
- Nietzschean
- Lockean
- herbivore
- mountaineering
- herbivorous
- Namibian
- Zimbabwean
- mastermind
- extemporaneous
- Ecuadorian
- stentorian
- Mahomedan
- Athanasian
- mezzanine
- deuterium
- Gordian
- Malthusian
- Aleutian
- Weberian
- Romanist
- Zambian
- omnivorous
- Paraguayan
- summa
- operetta
- Zoroastrianism
- Eritrean
- masterfully
- Hibernian
- propranolol
- Muhammadan
- beryllium
- miscellany
- antient
- quatrain
- radiantly
- Dalmatian
- Okinawan
- Herodian
- carnivore
- commissure
- summarization
- Baconian
- utopianism
- opprobrious
- taskmaster
- butane
- Wagnerian
- Manichean
- Laplacian
- sonority
- ethane
- barouche
- Kentuckian
- Chalcedonian
- Eustachian
- Lydian